Although I do think there are still uses for identifying a "main entry" or "citation form," the problem I see (from a moving image viewpoint) is that I don't think the names included in a citation are necessarily equivalent to the names that should be associated with the work level in FRBR terms. I think how to cite something and who is responsible for the work are two separate questions, particularly in the case of collaborative works.
Kelley McGrath --------------------------------------- In the digital world, I don't think it's neccesary to decide which _one_ of multiple people the work should be "entered under". We no longer need this kind of "main entry" for display to the user. The work can be "entered under" (ie, related to, with those relations apparent in searches, browses, and displays) multiple people with various creation roles. Those roles should be indicated, again for display of the user. ... Jonathan Jean Weihs wrote: > Admittedly, this is a very long time ago. When Shirley Lewis, Janet > Macdonald, & I were working on the rules for cataloguing nonbook > materials (late 1960s early 1970s), we visited/wrote to several film > production companies to ask who was responsible for the content of a > motion picture or whether it was viewed as a collective effort. Many > replied that the director was responsible; the actors, the camera > person, the sound people, etc., all did as he/she directed. A few > claimed it was the producer (he who controls the money calls the tune). > Others that it was a collective effort. We came to the conclusion that, > when one, two, or three person filled all the important functions in > the creation of the film, the motion picture should be entered under > that the first named or most prominently named. If more people had > major roles, enter under title. I don't think that there can be one > rule for identification of MPs. > > Ben Tucker, then Principal Cataloger at LC, agreed at a public meeting > that LC entered an MP under personal name when it was obviously the work > of one, two, or three people. > > Jean Weihs >
